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Erinnerung eines vergessenen soldaten these days were full of great sufferingmemories of a forgotten soldier, munich. This is the horror of world war ii on the eastern front, as seen through the eyes of a teenaged german. Guy sajer is the pseudonym of guy mouminoux, a french writer and comic book artist, born on january 1927 in paris, and best known as the author of the ww2 memoir le soldat oublie 1965, translated as the forgotten soldier, which recounts his experience serving in the wehrmacht on the eastern front from 1942 to 1945, in the elite. The forgotten soldier by guy sajer, 9781574882865, download free ebooks, download free pdf epub ebook.
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